Here’s the difference between AWS Kinesis and Alation. The comparison is based on pricing, deployment, business model, and other important factors.
Amazon Kinesis makes it easy to collect, process, and analyze real-time, streaming data so you can get timely insights and react quickly to new information. Amazon Kinesis offers key capabilities to cost-effectively process streaming data at any scale, along with the flexibility to choose the tools that best suit the requirements of your application. With Amazon Kinesis, you can ingest real-time data such as video, audio, application logs, website clickstreams, and IoT telemetry data for machine learning, analytics, and other applications. Amazon Kinesis enables you to process and analyze data as it arrives and respond instantly instead of having to wait until all your data is collected before the processing can begin.
Alation provides a data cataloging platform. It automatically builds a catalog of useful data documentation, covering all of the data sources, and allows users to collaborate and work on the data. It processes enterprise unstructured data by centralizing knowledge into a single place using machine learning and human analysts. The search can be made using keywords in plain English. Enables users to access relevant information (including experts, lineage, keys and indexes, relevant queries) and documentation on all tables, across the organization’s data sources. The clients include PepsiCo, Dow, Fox Networks, BMW and others.
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Categories | Data Streaming | Data Discovery, Data Cataloging |
Stage | Late Stage | Late Stage |
Target Segment | Enterprise, Mid size | Enterprise, Mid size |
Deployment | SaaS | SaaSOn Prem |
Business Model | Commercial | Commercial |
Pricing | Contact Sales | Free trial |
Location | US | California, US |
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